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Autore |
Tomich Dale W. <1946-> |
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Titolo |
Through the prism of slavery : labor, capital, and world economy / / Dale W. Tomich |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., , 2004 |
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©2004 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (227 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Slave labor - Caribbean Area - History - 19th century |
Slavery - Caribbean Area - History - 19th century |
Sugarcane industry - History - Caribbean Area |
Slave labor - History - 19th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Slavery in the World Economy; 1 Capitalism, Slavery, and World Economy: Historical Theory and Theoretical History; 2 World of Capital, Worlds of Labor: A Global Perspective; 3 The ""Second Slavery"": Bonded Labor and the Transformation of the Nineteenth-Century World Economy; Part II: The Global in the Local; 4 World Slavery and Caribbean Capitalism: The Cuban Sugar Industry, 1760-1868; 5 Spaces of Slavery: Times of Freedom-Rethinking Caribbean History in World Perspective |
6 Small Islands and Huge Comparisons: Caribbean Plantations, Historical Unevenness, and Capitalist ModernityPart III: Work, Time, and Resistance: Shifting the Terms of Confrontation; 7 White Days, Black Days: The Working Day and the Crisis of Slavery in the French Caribbean; 8 Une Petite Guinée: Provision Ground and Plantation in Martinique-Integration, Adaptation, and Appropriation; 9 Contested Terrains: Houses, Provision Grounds, and the Reconstitution of Labor in Postemancipation Martinique; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This thoughtful book explores the contested relationship between slavery and capitalism. Tracing slavery's integral role in the formation |
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of a capitalist world economy, Dale W. Tomich reinterprets the development of the world economy through the ""prism of slavery."" Through a sustained critique of Marxism, world-systems theory, and new economic history, the author develops an original conceptual framework for answering theoretical and historical questions about the nexus between slavery and the world economy. |
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